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Casey Swails, NASA deputy associate administrator, provides remarks during a NASA Office of Small Business Programs learning webinar titled “Empowering Small Businesses: NASA OSBP & SBA present The Made in America Manufacturing,” Wednesday, April 16, 2025, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

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SBA Shifts 8(a) Program Focus to Defense, Narrowing Disadvantaged Status

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is undergoing a significant strategic pivot, altering the operational priorities of its flagship 8(a) Business Development program. Historically designed to expand economic opportunity for socially and economically disadvantaged entrepreneurs, the program is now placing…

Sep 22, 2026 • 3 min read

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